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Social History• January 19, 2022

American Friends of Versailles Study Marie Antoinette’s Hapsburg Legacy in Prague, Part II

Part II of Sharon Hoge’s coverage of the American Friends of Versailles visiting Prague and its historical relationship to Marie Antoinette whose Hapsburg mother was Queen of the empire...

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The American Friends of Versailles in Vienna Visit Scenes of Marie Antoinette’s Childhood, Part I

Social History• January 14, 2022.
Sharon Hoge takes us on the annual American Friends of Versailles fundraising visit this year to Vienna and Prague. Part 1... READ MORE
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Hollywood Lives, Part II, Women in Charge

Social Diary• January 12, 2022.
Women in Charge; always a good story... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• January 6, 2022.
Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part I

Social Diary• January 5, 2022.
On a cold and quiet January weekday in New York, we’re re-running another New York when it was hotter and hardly quiet... READ MORE
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Remembering Arlene Dahl

Social Diary• January 4, 2022.
A tribute to a Star from the days when 80 million Americans went to the movies every week!... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Confidential: The Windsors and The FBI (1940-1942)

Palm Beach• December 16, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew recounts the time the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were courted in Palm Beach where the FBI files were thick with confidential letters and telegrams claiming the Windsors were suspected Nazi spies, making for a delicious, if not illusory, chapter of Palm Beach’s social history... READ MORE
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Miami Art Week: Art Icons Mira Lehr + Martin Z. Margulies

Palm Beach• December 8, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes in Miami’s Art Basel with the Miami art world’s groundbreakers artist Mira Lehr and collector Martin Margulies holding center stage... READ MORE
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What’s New at Palm Beach … kind of

Palm Beach• December 1, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes us on a trip into the annals of keeping Palm Beach the gem that it’s always been, and now because it’s growing, how they keep its mystique... READ MORE
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1015 Park — A History of One of Park Avenue’s Most Distinct Private Residences

House• November 9, 2021.
A personal history of the red brick house on the corner of Park and 85th, completed for its family in 1915, who lived there for the next 50 years... READ MORE
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Art + History: Boca Raton museums launch season

Palm Beach• October 27, 2021.
Art and architecture connoisseur Augustus Mayhew takes us to Boca Raton for its Museum of Art’s world premiere of Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru exhibition... READ MORE
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Palm Beach, Esq. + Historical Society adds photo collection

Palm Beach• October 14, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew delivers a Palm Beach story about an Irish American boy, a real multi-disciplinary who was the gentleman guide/savior of the community. ... READ MORE
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Joanne Connelley; When Dreams Came True

Social Diary• October 4, 2021.
A little girl from New Jersey who made a debut that brought international fame and fortune over night and a star-crossed life... READ MORE

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